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Episode 370 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we debate the horror power of the chainsaw, marvel at what is not seen but felt, and ponder over the curious beauty of grasses and windchimes mid-slasher in 1974's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 369 - The Beyond
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Swimfans: Bloodbath begins in the most Italian way possible as we explore tarantula puppets, inadvisable hoteliers, and what might be the most uncomfortable contact lenses in the world in 1981's THE BEYOND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 368 - Doug Campbell Triple Feature
It's the annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode! This week, Jennifer has selected for us three Doug Campbell (Deadly Mile High Club, Stalked By My Doctor) films for us to view and share round-robin style. Join us for deep fakes, double mommies and rock-in-jar husbands as we do a survey of Campbell films! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 367 - Thesis
This week on the show, we roll down our balaclavas to talk buffets of hot people, the fine line with depravity of showing some but not too much, and your college's live death footage collection in 1996's THESIS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 366 - The Killer of Sheep
This week on Unknown Pleasures, Josh and Craig talk the power of spaces, the burdens of adulthood and the world, and the searing light of the California sun in 1977's KILLER OF SHEEP! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 365 - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
This week on the pod, we talk teenage contrivance, the importance of vampire-specific powers and abilities, and Josh and Craig petition to become wolf wives in 2009's THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 364 - The Parallax View
This week on the show, we talk political paranoia in the 70s, unexpected editing and cinematographic choices, and incredibly drownable sheriffs in 1974's THE PARALLAX VIEW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 363 - The Hole
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about the metaphorical concrete walls between people, contracting bug disease, and vomiting into your neighbor's hole in 1998's THE HOLE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 362 - My Neighbor Totoro (w/ Kyle Daileda)
This week on the show, we talk the fantasy of abundance and community, befriending crows, and the beauty and grace of flesh buses in 1988's MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 361 - Disclosure Day
This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about systems, and getting alien powers in 2026's DISCLOSURE DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 360 - The Living End
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992's THE LIVING END! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 359 - In the Earth (w/ Delaney Jordan)
This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake of a pandemic, and how much filmic shag is too much filmic shag in 2021's IN THE EARTH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void
This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer's birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get sad and stuff in 2009's ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 358 - Pillion
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025's PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 357 - The Lighthouse
This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 356 - Poison
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991's POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 355 - High Life
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don't commit to anything in 2018's HIGH LIFE! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod
Episode 354 - The End of Evangelion
It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 353 - The Boys in the Band
This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970's THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique
On this week's Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film's beauty can take it in 1991's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 351 - Skinamarink
This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022's SKINAMARINK! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 350 - Death Race 2000
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975's DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 349 - Repo Man
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 348 - Baby Assassins
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
